United States federal courts

In the United States of America there are two types of courts, federal and state. Federal courts are created under the Constitution to determine debates involving the Constitution and laws passed by Congress. State courts are created by a state which includes local courts created by cities, counties, and other municipalities. The differences between federal and state courts are defined mainly by jurisdiction. Federal court jurisdiction hear lawsuits against the United States and those…

structure of the court system, the reconciliation process, and the administration of justice and criminal investigation and prosecution are all things Vietnam’s court system has in common with the United States courts system. The Vietnamese court system is organized as followed: district people’s court, the provincial people’s court and the supreme people’s court, which is indubitably similar to the United States court structure: United states district courts, United States court of appeal and…

multinational telecommunications establishment, possessed a patent that protected speech recognition software in the United States. Similarly, Microsoft, an American multinational technology company, created code to make a computer program that also recognized speech, but instead decided to sell it in foreign countries. Essentially, Microsoft found a complex loophole in Section 271(f) of the United States’ Patent Act and was eventually able to legally sell their speech recognition program in…

Some people believe that we only have one court system when it is not nearly the case, in reality, there are fifty state court systems and the federal court system. In this short paper, we will discuss the roles and structures of the federal and state court system. Even though the federal and state courts have a huge amount of similarities there are also quite different in more ways than one. After the court structure, I will discuss the roles of court actors which include the judge, prosecutor…

In early June 2010, a Border Patrol for the United States by the name of. Jesus Mesa Jr, while standing on US soil, fatally shot a 15 year old minor that was on Mexican soil. The Hernandez v. Mesa case was argued during October in 2016 at the Supreme Court on the argument if Mexican Nations had a right to legally charge a United States officer under the pretenses of the Rights contained in the U.S. Constitution. The 15 year old’s name was Sergio Hernandez, and he was hanging around with his…

Supreme Court Case Process This case was about the Supreme Court’s judgement of the allegations that Walmart was committing discrimination against women in salary, bonuses and training. In 2001, six female Walmart employees filed suit against them in US federal court and in 2003 the plaintiffs amended the complaint requesting that the court certify the case as a class action law suit and include all current and former female Walmart employees. They stated that the discrimination faced by the…

At one time, courts applied the same test for determining whether a federal constitutional error was harmless in direct appeals and habeas corpus proceedings. Chapman v. California, 386 U.S. 18 (1967) was the standard for harmless error review in both direct appeals and habeas corpus proceedings. Currently, the applicable harmlessness standard depends on the procedural posture of the case. Chapman remains the standard for direct appeals, but the standard in a collateral proceeding differs from a…

The United State’s Constitution helped establish the judicial system under Article III with three sections going over the judicial powers, trial by jury and original jurisdiction and jury trials, and treason. The courts are structured and function by the use of the constitution. Danielle Finck tells us that “The judiciary, established in Article III of the Constitution, is the least well-defined of the three branches of government. Article III speaks of judicial power that is vested in a Supreme…

case over the issue of prisoners' rights brought to the United States Supreme Court in 1866. The Court was asked to rule on fines imposed upon a liquor dealer by the state. Pervear was licensed by the United States under the current internal revenue code to keep and sell liquor. He was fined and sentenced to three months of hard labor for failing to have a state license for his liquor store. He pleaded that he had a license from the United States under the internal revenue acts of Congress, he…

-In this assignment, I will summarize the main points of the Supreme Court decision in the Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow case. I will discuss the level this case took to reach the Supreme Court. I explain how the Supreme Court reached its decision. I will also give my opinion on how this case impact American society and my feelings on reciting the pledge. -In the Supreme Court case Elk Grove Unified School District versus Newdow, Mr. Michael a Newdow believe the Elk Grove Unified…